Just like parents, we are also responsible. Our activist approach to minimize the impact of our products on people and the environment and support actions to improve children’s quality of life is longstanding. And today, our projects are equally ambitious.
In December 2019, during the UN Climate Change Conference, together with 500 other B Corp certified companies, we committed to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 – twenty years ahead of the 2050 date set by the Paris Agreement.
This means that we will transform our sourcing and manufacturing processes to be even closer to our customers and will function with a circular approach to the life of our products and their packaging.
By sourcing from responsible plant sectors which are placed under the control of UEBT, our objective is to better control the traceability of our plant-based active ingredients: from farming or picking to processing and integration into our products.
To do so, we work in partnership with all the sector’s players: farmers, local authorities, agronomists, etc.
Since our creation, we always choose the best ingredients from the plant world, preferably organic, while also ensuring our products’ safety with a stringent formulation charter.
We process avocados that should normally go to waste to create cosmetic active ingredients for our products. The entire avocado (including the pit) is transformed into oil and powder from which we obtain our avocado Perseose® that can be found in our products.
We use specific technologies that respect people and our planet: molecular distillation (a green process used to separate and concentrate premium oil ingredients) and biotechnologies such as enzymatic engineering, a substitute to chemical substances.
Since 2020, for 100 units produced, we have reduced our consumption of electricity by 19,4%, gas by 24,6 and water by 13,2%.
Since 2018, we purchase 100% green electricity from renewable energy sources (hydro, etc.) for our production site located in France.
For 100% of the amount of electricity used by our Expanscience production site, 100% of European renewable electricity is introduced into the network.
Our products are eco-designed throughout their lifecycle. Our bottles and cardboard cases are recyclable, the weight of our packaging has been reduced to a maximum and the instructions have been removed. Whenever we do use cardboard cases, these are made from sustainably managed forest cardboard and printed with vegetable oil-based inks.
We are currently experimenting bulk sales: i.e. sales of non-prepackaged products. The idea behind this is to take our products’ eco-design a step further, especially our packaging which are reducing.
Bulk, a green distribution method, falls within a circular economy approach and offers an alternative to plastic bottles.
GEODIS, the storage warehouse, is located less than 800 meters from our factory (ISO140001 certified – a standard for environmental management).
of plastic used in our packaging since 2010
of cardboard used in our packaging since 2010
In 2018, our efforts and commitments were rewarded with the B Corp certification. Recognized worldwide, this pioneering label is awarded to companies and brands whose insight is to be “the best FOR the world” as opposed to “the best in the world”. This label requires that we have an activist vision of our impact on the world.
B Corp is a highly demanding, pioneering international label awarded to brands that demonstrate a triple economic, social and environmental performance and who develop their activities by seeking the best possible contribution for society and the environment.
B Corp also represents a community of more than 4,000 companies around the world who share the same humanistic vision of economy and who place general interest in the heart of their business model, thereby combining economic, social and environmental performances.
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